, and barbara and george are like the sweetest, nicest people. they spent the first half hour that we were with them president bush tried to convince my wife that he invented the phase you the man, right? that's a good joke. and my wife's like, do you know he invented the phrase you the man? i'm like, he did not. although he might have, i don't know, he's the president. but the nice part was as i was researching this book, i got to ask president bush questions about the white house and his time there. and, listen, i write fiction. i can make up anything i want, right? but we all know that there are only a few people on this planet who know what it's like to live in the white house and know that someone out there is trying to to kill you. and that's pretty amazing. so i got to say to him, you know, are you scared, sir, were you scared at that moment? he was, like, not confused by the question, but almost like he'd never heard it before. and he's like, no. that's not the right word. he kept saying, no, no, no. and i asked him to describe it, and he said, you know, we had a lot of tense. tens
